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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

You're right. There's no actual rule in English that you can't split infinitives. It was copied over from Latin in an attempt to try to come up with some rules for grammar.

Source: Many nerdy discussions with Star Trek geeks about "to boldly go where no one has gone before"